Number One

Great movie. Originally found it because of Geldof, and was trying to see if he'd been in any other films besides "The Wall" and I found this one. I thought it was very entertaining and funny. I would like to imagine this is what Pink was doing before he became a rock star. My only downside is that I'm American and could barely understand what they were saying. I had to put on the subtitles, but other than that, it's an amazing film. It actually introduced me to pool, a similar game, and I enjoy it very much. Great soundtrack on the film, also. I'm currently trying to look for the VHS tape of Number One that way I can watch it whenever I want. No luck so far.

I saw this film on its cinema release in the UK and thought it was pretty dreadful. I remember a ridiculous scene in which a snooker player is chasing the other player around the table in a rage, with the legendary commentor Ted Lowe saying "The crowd are loving this". 'Whispering' Ted Lowe demeaned himself by taking part in this travesty and must have just done it for the money. The story strongly implies that there's widespread fixing of matches in snooker which is most certainly not the case in real life apart from a few isolated cases. It's a truly bad film in so many ways but I give it 4 stars because I wasn't bored by it.